Thursday, January 14, 2010

the hodgepodge house

thank heavens for chopsticks and spaghetti, who sent me to this fabulous little gem of a front yard after she saw my report on the outdoors type. this place has it all - chandeliers, metal sculptures, painted bathtubs, bowling balls-a-plenty, a vase strung in between the slopes of the roof, dinosaurs and bottles and ceiling fans and headlights and bicycles and license plates and lord knows what else dangling from anything dangleworthy. now that the subzero temps and howling winds are history and the sun is shining again, i was finally willing to lace up my boots and hike over there today. it was worth every moment of trudging through the blocks of slushy goo. thanks, chopsticks!

p.s. just set up an artsyville page on facebook - if you're in the neighborhood, please stop by and say hello!

the second time this week I have to think of 'to kill a mockingbird', now the haunted house.

this is fab. did you go and ring the bell? or was it like the type-writer excursion, just an outdoorsy one? next time, you can perhaps take your girlie with you, goggles and all; she'll definitely ring the bell for you. no probs.

Great pictures! (And to answer some of the questions, he just does it for fun--he goes to the junkyard looking for interesting pieces and spends quite a long time making all these great pieces. It's always changing.)